Falling

If you fall you get back up...if you fall again you get back up.  It seems so simple.  It teaches that you should never quit...when times get rough you are strong enough to get back up and go at it again no matter what the condition is.  It gives you a satisfaction that you can't receive from anywhere else.  All alone, nothing but you and your ability to get back up.  No help from anyone else, no sympathetic hand to pick you up...it's just you and you must get back up.  Life doesn’t discriminate whom she scars physically or emotionally.  You will have scars but that is ok. Scars are a good thing. Scars serve as a permanent reminder of our fragility but more importantly our strength. Scars are proof of what you have overcome. Every time I look at my many scars I remember how weak I was at the time the wound was formed, and what formed it. I remember the healing process. I remember the strength I didn’t know I had to push through, and I remember eventually being healed.

 Mehkya will have a scar.  Tonight she stumped her toe pretty bad.  It was the first time that we were truly concerned about her and her injury.  Like all parents it is tough seeing her in pain....but she will overcome and she will have the scar to show how she persevered. 

I had my second shift back to work so Rebecca had the boys. I had a pretty good shift driving Engine 4.  We were pretty slow and that is always a good thing.  I wish that I could take the kids into some of these houses so that they could see how great they really have it.  I did mess up today at work...While driving the engine and we got called to a fire just a few blocks from the station.  It is my job when I am driving to get us there as fast and safe as possible.  Well I missed the address (something I shouldn't do).  It wasn't a big deal thank goodness but I hate the fact that it could have been. 

 Rebecca and my brother in law took the boys to a Japanese steak house.  The boys really loved seeing the fire and watching their food cooked in front of them.  Cayden was a little rotten and learned that Rebecca doesn't play around.  If she says that she is going to take you outside and make you sit on the curb until you stop throwing a fit, she means it and Cayden found out the hard way.  Mehkya and Kennedy spent the night with the in-laws and a friend last night so Rebecca had the boys all day.  They had an up and down day.  We played outside tonight and Cayden is getting very good at riding his bike.  He falls a lot and gets scars....but that is ok.....

To be continued....